In a world where new products and technology are being introduced every day, a Welsh industry designer challenged the idea of modernity, suggesting a new perspective of returning to the fundamentals. Speaking at the 6th Herald Design Forum held Tuesday at the Grand Hyatt Seoul, Ross Lovegrove, the designer of Sony’s Walkman cassette player, asked some fundamental questions concerning design and ...

Speaking about his philosophy on innovative design for automobiles at the Herald Design Forum 2016 on Tuesday, Henrik Fisker, the legendary Danish-born automotive designer known for his sophisticated electric vehicle designs, said, “Emotional connection is what attracts more consumers looking for something new and innovative.” Companies that always choose the safe way “are bound to disappear in t...

London-based Korean fashion designer Choi Eu-don gave a lecture titled “Art Embracing Business: Business Embracing Art” at the Herald Design Forum 2016 in Seoul on Tuesday. Choi, who serves as the CEO of his namesake fashion brand Eudon Choi, recently re-launched the brand’s e-commerce site to reach more consumers worldwide. When it comes to fashion, design should not only be creative but also ...

Herald Design Forum -- Asia’s largest conference exploring influential design ideas -- gathered over 800 participants Tuesday, many coming from disparate fields, for a day of unparalleled inspiration. At the Grand Hyatt Seoul, design specialists, scholars, students, bureaucrats and diplomats listened to the near-revolutionary ideas of industry gurus. Under the banner “Design for convergence,” t...

New design and different looks do grab people’s attention. The essence of architecture, however, lies in allowing the structures to blend in with the surrounding nature and helping people freely enjoy the space with each other, said Kazuyo Sejima, a Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect. Sejima’s affection for glass marbles, steel and aluminum is seen also in her project on the island o...

Tracing the creative journey of his company, Alberto Alessi emphasized that design, above all, is a process that requires acute intuition and sensibility. He also lamented the current market conditions that make it harder for creators to experiment and take risks. Alessi is the third-generation CEO of the eponymous Italian houseware brand that has come to be known for its elegant, whimsical des...

Entrepreneurs and startup owners today are living in a world of investment portfolios: Profit-making is a must and selling a company at maximum profit is to be celebrated. Yancey Strickler, the founder and CEO of the world’s largest crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, argues there is a better and more sustainable way. Speaking at the Herald Design Forum 2016 on Tuesday at the Grand Hyatt Seoul i...

Industry leaders share know-how on creating new values

Asia’s largest design-focused conference kicks off, emphasizing convergence of tech, art, business

According to Yancey Strickler, his company Kickstarter offers a kind of intimate patron-artist relationship in the digital age, on a global platform with no geographical limits. “A community of patrons supporting artists as they made their newest work -- this is the way authors like Alexander Pope and Mark Twain, and composers like Mozart and Beethoven brought their work to life,” the firm’s co-...

Four design gurus will speak about expanding the horizons of design through collaboration at the Herald Design Premium Talk. At the exclusive event, set to take place at the Grand Hyatt Seoul Regency Room on Nov. 8 at 6 p.m., attendees will be able to gather inspiration from the experts’ experiences and network with one another. The industrial designer is known for his logical and beautiful c...

Design is more than just a tool for expressing aesthetics. Boosted by fast-changing technology and talented innovators, design is one of the core factors that affect not only the identity of products and brands, but also people‘s everyday lives. Global design gurus emphasize that the future of the industry depends on how designers incorporate design into other fields, suggesting that the design ...

The simple and instinctive design trend will continue in both consumer and enterprise information technology markets, said a Silicon Valley-based user interface design expert. “All of us are interacting with an ever-growing number of IT products in our daily lives. Dealing with dozens and dozens of them is overwhelming users. That is why it has become critical for IT companies to create devices ...

ROME (AFP) -- Rome’s biggest new building in half a century was inaugurated Saturday, two decades after architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas produced their groundbreaking design for the controversial and much-delayed project. Now that it is finally finished, the husband-and-wife team’s “Nuvola” -- a glass and steel box containing a cloud-like suspended interior -- looks set to join the Col...